I felt like I was watching a video game.

Rating: 3/10 (19 November 2003)

I was really looking forward to seeing this film on DVD after I heard all the buzz about the "alternate endings". I was very intrigued. **POSSIBLE SPOILERS** The entire first half of the film I felt like I was watching a video game. It seems so contrived, the lead character walking around this abandoned city finding various clues as to what had happened. I could imagine exactly how the game would play out- read a notice on a kiosk, pick up some soda and some candy bars, meet some people that would fill in some of the pieces, then fight some creatures, collect some more supplies in an empty supermarket, etc, etc. Keep moving on, heading towards the army base,gathering more information along the way until the final climax when you have to save the women from the evil soldiers and the zombie creatures. I don't know if there is a game of this movie, but it seems to me it was created with that inevitability in mind. I feel like I've already played it. The game might be more interesting than the movie although I doubt it.
As far as the "alternate endings" go, it just seemed to me that the filmmakers just did not have any idea of how to end this film. The ending that they settled on left me saying "huh?" and the alternate endings, including the "radical alternate ending" (which is just story boards)were just stupid. I guess I was waiting for something profound.
There was basically no point to this movie. A couple of good moments that made me jump but I pretty much forgot about the movie as soon as it was over. I typically really like the "last people on earth" type of movie, but there was no message at all in 28DL- not hope nor irony.